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I have a chick just hatched today. Day 23. She pipped yesterday evening so I did help her this afternoon and removed the shell. Kept the membrane moist. She hatched and has barely moved.
I know her odds are poor. At this small can I try egg yolk?
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I was given 10 runner ducks in August. They are just over a year old and although very funny to watch they are very frightened of everyone and just run away even when I'm not in the run.
The days after we got them we werw getting 4 eggs, then 2 then 1. I know with chickens any change...
Any idea what is wrong with this chicken and what I can do to help her?
I have brought her inside in a crate with bedding andnjust getting her food now.
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i had a hen go missing a few weeks ago and thought she had been taken by a fox or coyote but it turns out she was sitting on 24 eggs in my front yard and i somehow never noticed her.
i came home from the store and found her in the front yard with a baby...
so i went on a hunt to find...
So I feel like I just have failure after failure......and feeling very defeated as a chicken tender.
When we moved our chicken tractor last night the ground was very wonky and a broiler got her foot stuck. She seemed fine (I know they hide injury)
This morning I noticed her limping but was...
Last night I went out to my meat chickens and noticed one of my layers ruffled and staring not moving.
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I kept an eye while I did food and water foenthe meats and she didn't move. I stopped and turned and she had turned around And I saw this
I have never had prolapse...
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I bought a batch of week old chicks and when I unpacked noticed one had a bad leg.
I think it is a slipped tendon. Her name is Robin. I did try to do the chick chair thing but she constantly escaped it. I decided since she was getting food and water and getting around that I would...
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So chicken math has taken over and we had the idea to turn the part of our barn that is a drive shed into a coop.
Plan is to cover all the spaces between the wood from the second beam down and hardware cloth the top.
There are 3 doors to the front of the house that 2 of them will be...
I found this little one laying sideways beside the feeder a could hours ago.
Thought she was dead but still breathing. I have fed her some polyvinyl mixed with a little water and she's been drinking.
She can't seem to get her feet under her.
Tried some watered down feed and she won't touch...
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I just picked up 17 barbu d'uccle chicks today.
The lady told me they were a week old.
My intention was to buy 3 as a companion for a broiler that has been in the house a week and not grown much.
She said I could have the whole lot (17) for a great price and stupid me said sure.
I was...
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I have a broiler baby I got 2 days ago.
I thought I had set up the brooder for success. Lots of room but not too much. Heat plate in the middle. Dipped all beaks, everyone was good.
This AM I found a baby I thought was gone but when I picked her up she was still alive and gasping...
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We have 10 hens and a roo and they will not roost.
We got them as pullets about 2 months ago. They were in one room (with outside space) for about a month and then we're moved. When they didn't roost in the first room I had thought ok they were raised on cage floor they aren't use to...
We had a hatch this weekend so she's only a couple days old and jumped out of my hands. She got up and walked ok and I thought she was fine.
I went back to check them before lights out and she was at the back of the heat plate. I lifted it and she didn't move so I poked her and she got up...
This guy has been pipped since 8 am. I did put a bit of a hole in the membrane bc it hasn't moved a few hours ago.
He still hasn't gone anywhere so I chipped some shell away.
The membrane is very white. So I put some veg oil on it. But he seems to have a lot of water gurgling our of his...
Firat time hatching. Set 38 eggs BCM and CLB and 2 of my own, on the 21st.
Candled at day 7 -4 were not developing but put them back in to see.
Candled again Tuesday and into lockdown. There were about 9 that looked like not developing but bc it was my first time left them in bc I have no idea...
I am doing my first hatch with a little giant 12300. (Yes I have since read the reviews and will be looking for a better incubator in the future).
My issue is the humidity.
I had initially read minimum 60% humidity the day I was picking my eggs up so I panicked and put a bunch of water in bc it...